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Civic Museum of Musical Instruments - Milan
Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities
Systems of knowledge of the cultural heritage Division
Enea - Research center Bologna
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May 25 - 27, Correr Museum, Venice, Italy | STEWART POLLENS
May 25 - 27, Correr Museum, Venice, Italy
For three days, Stewart Pollens, former conservator of the musical instruments collection at the Metropolitan Museum of New York (MET), will examine some instruments belonging to the Correr colletion.
Download the catalogue. |
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May 18-22, 2011, Phoenix, USA | AMIS Meeting
The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), Phoenix, AZ, USA, will host the 40th annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) from May 18 to May 22, 2011.
I will present a paper entitled "Non invasive diagnostic techniques (MicroCT and SEM microanalysis) for the study of musical instruments at the Correr Museum in Venice, Italy". Read the abstract.
Here the final program
Here the abstracts of papers
AMIS Meeting, Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona May 18-22, 2011
MIM 4725 East Mayo Boulevard
Phoenix, AZ 85050
ph. 480.478.6000 |
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RAVENNA, APRIL 14-15 2011 | 2ND INT. WORKSHOP ON DIAGNOSTIC AND PRESERVATION OF MUSICAL INSTR.
April 14 - 15, 2011
2nd edition of the International Workshop on Diagnostics and Preservation of Musical Instruments.
All the informations here.
The workshop will be held at:
Casa Matha 3, andrea costa sq.
48100 Ravenna
+39 0544 21247
info@casamatha.it
www.casamatha.it/home.htm
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05 MARZO 2011 | WORKSHOP FOTOGRAFIA
sabato 05 marzo 2011
FOTOGRAFARE STRUMENTI MUSICALI
Rilevamento, documentazione, diagnostica per immagini come pratica di conservazione. Di Claudio Canevari ed Emanuele Marconi.
presso
Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna
ore 11.00-16.00: workshop tecnico-pratico programma
ore 17.00: presentazione del libro invito
Interverranno:
Carla Di Francesco, Responsabile Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici dell’Emilia Romagna
Giuseppe Maino, Università di Bologna, ENEA Bologna
Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna
Palazzo Sanguinetti, Strada Maggiore 34, 40125 Bologna
info: 051 2757711 • prenotazionimuseomusica@comune.bologna.it
www.museomusicabologna.it |
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december 06, 2010 | lecture at Trieste Conservatory of Music
Wunderkammer 2010 - Il giardino del mondo
december 06, 2010, 06.00 p.m.
conservatory of music "G. Tartini", Trieste, Italy
As closing event of the early music festival Wunderkammer 2010 (program), lecture at Tartini music conservatory, entitled IL GIARDINO DI LEGNO. Dalla bottega al sincrotrone, indagine sui misteri della liuteria antica. |
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November 15, 2010 | 2010 Eastern Analytical Symposium, Somerset (USA)
2010 Eastern Analytical Symposium, Somerset (USA)
November 15, 2010
Franco Zanini, Senior Scientist at the Elettra Laboratory, Trieste, Italy, invited at the Eastern Analytical Symposium has presented the il paper “Sound at the speed of light: non-destructive structural analysis of historical musical instruments with synchrotron radiation”. Cohauthors: D. Dreossi, N. Sodini, E. Marconi. EAS-Abstract (n.10)
Abstract:
Sound at the Speed of Light: Non-Destructive Structural Analysis of Historical Musical Instruments with Synchrotron Radiation
Franco Zanini, Sincrotrone Trieste, S. S. 14 - Km 163, 5 Basovizza- Trieste, 34149 Italy, Diego Dreossi, Nicola Sodini, Emanuele Marconi
A correct strategy for restoration and conservation of historical musical instruments must include a detailed non-destructive chemical and physical characterization, in order to understand provenance, age, present conditions, and presence of previous restoration procedures. We present here preliminary results concerning the use of synchrotron radiation microtomography applied to instruments of great historical importance from the Museo Correr in Venice. The first example is the organ with paper pipes by Lorenzo Gusnasco, built around 1494. In this case it has been possible to obtain detailed information on the techniques used to manufacture the pipes, and to evaluate the kind of woods and their present condition, especially regarding presence and activity of larvae. Similar tests have been carried out on a wooden bass recorder by Johann Cristoph Denner (XVIII century). Moreover, feasibility studies have been carried out with the aim of demonstrating the advantages and evaluating the effectiveness of synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography as a suitable
technique for non-destructive analysis of bowed stringed instruments. The particular geometry of the X-ray beam and the use of a novel detector allow structural evaluation of the main details of the instruments with unprecedented richness of details.
This, in turn, allows precise dendrochronological investigation of historical violins, as well as, the characterization of their structure, defects, wood thickness and density. |
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November 2010 | NEWTON special issue
Published a special issue of Newton, dedicated to preservation and diagnostic of the cultural heritage. Free download here.
Here you can read the interview to Franco Zanini, scientist of the Synchrotron Elettra Research Center in Basovizza, on the last development of the Micro CT applied to musical instruments. |
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Paris, november 2010 - january 2011 | MUSÈE DE LA MUSIQUE
harpsichords measurements and moulding castings of the Musèe de la Musique collection, with the supervision of Jean Claude Battault and Christine Laloue. Testing new silicon rubber dental impression materials. |
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Pisa, October 29, 2010 | PAPER AT XVII SIDM ANNUAL MEETING
Seventeenth SIdM Annual Meeting
c/o Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | October 29 - 31, 2010
Friday 29 October 2010, 3.00 p.m:
Emanuele Marconi will present a paper entitled: "Fabricatore, costruttori a Napoli nel primo Ottocento. Profilo biografico attraverso gli strumenti conservati presso il Civico Museo degli Strumenti Musicali di Milano". |
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published the book FOTOGRAFIA DI STRUMENTI MUSICALI
Published for the italian publishing house Il Prato of Padova, in the book series edited by Paolo Cremonesi http://www.ilprato.com/il_prato_restauro/frames/restauro.htm "Fotografia di strumenti musicali. Rilevamento, documentazione, diagnostica per immagini come pratica di conservazione".
Italian abstract:
Fotografare uno strumento musicale durante un intervento di restauro o di studio è una pratica ormai ovvia e indispensabile che trova applicazione in varie fasi dell' intervento: ad esempio, il rilievo delle caratteristiche dello strumento e dello stato di conservazione, la documentazione delle fasi dellʼ intervento ma anche la messa in atto di semplici tecniche di imaging diagnostico. Con l’avvento della fotografia digitale molte difficoltà tecniche sono state aggirate o superate dalla relativa semplicità d’uso delle nuove fotocamere, arrivate ormai a prestazioni per molti versi paragonabili o superiori a quelle delle apparecchiature a pellicola; la macchina fotografica digitale diventa quindi a tutti gli effetti uno strumento fondamentale di lavoro, di documentazione e di indagine per un restauratore di strumenti musicali.
Claudio Canevari, Emanuele Marconi
FOTOGRAFARE STRUMENTI MUSICALI
Rilevamento, documentazione, diagnostica per immagini come pratica di conservazione
pp. 160 - F.to 14 x 21 - copertina a due colori
ISBN 978-88-6336-091-2 € 18,00
Il Prato - Saonara (PD) |
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Venice, July 2010 | CORRER MUSEUM
In the month of July I'll be working at Correr Museum in Venice for activity of cataloguing and diagnostic imaging.
online catalogue | buy the catalogue |
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Ravenna, May 20-21, 2010 | DIAGNOSTICS AND PRESERVATION OF THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
International Workshop on Diagnostics and Preservation of the Musical Instruments
Ravenna, May 20-21, 2010, Department of Histories and Methods for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Ravenna site.
http://ravennamusicalinstruments2010.blogspot.com/
The conference, open to all museum professionals and curators, is aimed to present and critically discuss the latest researches about diagnostic techniques applied to musical instruments and advanced conservation practices, in relation also to fittings, use of materials, stockpile management, etc., through the presentation of case studies.
Divided into two days, the workshop is intended to be a focal point of both national and international coordination for the research of new technologies applied to musical instruments. Over fifty years since the first radiograph of musical instruments, new investigation techniques have been developed and improved as the necessary first step to the knowledge, appreciation and preservation of organologic and musical instruments’ heritage.
The conference is moreover concerned with supporting and spreading the idea of cooperation among Museum - University - Institute of Research, rather rare in Italy, from 2010 and therefore it will represent a reference annual appointment in the preservation and scientific investigation of musical instruments.
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Pavia, May 17, 2010 | Paper at VI Congress of Archaeometry
As part of the project Maratonarte 2007 has been submitted a paper entitled La microtomografia con luce di sincrotrone: uno strumento di analisi non invasiva per lo studio di strumenti musicali antichi N. Sodini (1), D. Dreossi (1), L. Mancini (1), F. Zanini (1), C. Tonini (2), E. Marconi (3), M. Palazzo (3), L. Trotta (3), B. Bentivoglio-Ravasio (3), at the VI Congress of Archaeometry, in collaboration with Sincrotrone Trieste (1), Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (2), Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Lombardia (3). |
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